strange_étrange_châredji_fremd you know that? You wake up and have strange dreams, felt? Or you see a scene on the roadside and suddenly think something nasty or stupid, what did not even think it? Where the alien begins in us, in our society? The stranger usually begins with the taboo, the exclusion of that fear. What is strange to us and what we are without the Other?
The Dance Theatre Festival Theatre is moving in its focus on modern dance theater is the last living services in Thuringia. It takes place every two years rather than cooperation between culture and the theater jena Jena. Our idea is to address pressing issues of the day and deliver it through unusual forms of dance theater to new posts. For
this festival we have put the stranger in various forms in the center. Specifically, we want to address alleged taboo topics such as strange-looking cultural differences, religious conflicts and the personal interaction with aging.
is the opening one of the best Indian dance company on the map. The sensual elegance and athletic exuberance of Indian dancers represent the cultural complexity and excitement of a new, emerging Indian society in a globalized world. Furthermore, we have
Joachim Schloemer & Graham Smith invited her
current production. The two dancers are living in speed.neither / nor Thoughts of death, which, like a kind of background noise can be more pushy with age.
shows the end of the festival, we Helena Waldmann
Return to Sender - Letters from Tentland. On stage, six exiled Iranian women have found refuge in small tents. The pristine beauty of the tents, like a second skin infinitely manipulable stresses the motif of imprisonment and the disruption that involves a life in exile.
The program of the Festival are also pieces of the dance company cie ms tanzwerk and Jochen Roller & Martin Nachbar, approaching from their specific perspectives to the stranger. We strive
us to show with this collection, such as political, but is also emotionally and gegenwartsnah dance.
The dance festival will continue to participate in the Long Night of Science with an own production: The Dance Lab is a kind of workshop on becoming a dance theater in the evening.
As a framework program of the festival films will be shown dancing in a glass house, on the lower stage of the theater house is an accompanying exhibition on aging to see.
We invite you to our dance festival.
Heike Faude and Roman Rösener
